Getting Started with the Open Dylan IDE

Contents:

• Preface
  • The Dylan Reference Manual
  • Chapters in this guide
• Quick Start
  • Starting work with Open Dylan
  • The project window
  • The Reversi project
  • Building an executable application
  • Three ways of running Dylan applications
  • Looking at definitions and expressions
  • Building DLLs
  • Making changes to an application
• Fixing Bugs
  • Rebuilding the application
  • Problems at compile time
  • Problems at run time
• Programming in Open Dylan
  • Projects
  • Development models
  • Compilation
  • Executing programs
  • Source, database, and run-time views
• Creating and Using Projects
  • Creating a new project
  • Creating a project using the Custom library option
  • Saving settings in the New Project wizard
  • Advanced project settings
  • Adding, moving, and deleting project sources
  • The project start function
  • Project settings
  • Project files and LID files
• Learning More About an Application
  • The browser
  • Browsing Reversi
  • Navigation in the browser
  • Browsing a project’s library
  • Namespace issues in the browser
  • Browsing run-time values of variables and constants
  • Browsing local variables and parameters on the stack
  • Browsing paused application threads
  • Keeping browser displays up to date
  • List of property pages
• Debugging and Interactive Development
  • The debugger
  • Debugger panes
  • Keeping debugger windows up to date
  • Controlling execution
  • Debugging techniques
  • Restarts
  • Choosing an application thread to debug
  • Changing the debugger layout
  • Interacting with an application
  • The active project
  • Breakpoints
  • Stepping
  • Debugging client/server applications
  • Exporting a bug report or a compiler warnings report
  • Debugger options
  • Just-in-time debugging
• Remote Debugging
  • Running a Dylan application on a remote machine
  • Attaching to running processes
• Dispatch Optimization Coloring in the Editor
  • About dispatch optimizations
  • Optimization coloring
  • Optimizing the Reversi application
• Delivering Dylan Applications
  • Building a release folder
  • Using the run-time library installer
  • About the run-time library DLLs
• The Interactive Editor
  • Invoking the editor and displaying files
  • Menu commands and special features
  • Using the editor for interactive development
  • Source control with Visual SourceSafe
• Creating COM Projects
  • Working with COM type libraries
  • An example COM server and client
  • Creating vtable and dual interfaces
  • The type library tool and specification files
• Copyright